Zedd Rewatches His Open Door 7 Years Later

This is quite embarrassing to be honest with you,

I did not remember ever showing anyone,

there's still boxes everywhere, damn.

[button clicking] What's up AD?

This is Zedd and today I'm going to watch

my Open Door from seven years ago,

let's see how much has changed

and how much has stayed the same.

[tape rewinding] [exciting music]

[button clicking] Welcome to the house.

I don't know how, but nobody's ever fallen here,

drunk or not drunk.

Please don't be the first one.

[button clicking] Yeah, I don't think

anyone ever fell into it, I'm happy to report,

I think or maybe I was drunk and I fell in, I forgot.

When I checked out the house I mean I fell in love

with the house right away,

I think there was something so special

and unique about it and it was a really big step for me,

it was a very big house.

I was kinda in a party mode in my life and career

and it's the first step into a big home in my life

that I made and I don't regret it.

But I'm concerned continuing these clips

'cause I don't know what else I said

[laughing] in those videos.

[upbeat music]

[button clicking] There's benches here

for when you get tired of walking to the Skittles machine.

This is the Skittles machine that will go

to whatever flavor you pick. [machine whirring]

Would you like some? [button clicking]

I feel like Skittles, if I'm not wrong,

at least to a certain extent got banned

because of the food dye.

It seems to me like I'm the only real Skittles stealer now.

It was basically a housewarming gift from Skittles

and there's only a few of them that they have ever made

and they were super sweet to offer that

because it's such a cool piece that people that really love.

Not only because of the Skittles,

but just to have that in your house is kinda absurd.

It was a really cool statement piece

so I like the whole gallery way into the Skittles machine.

The machine still exists.

I haven't found a place for it currently.

That doesn't mean that it's not gonna have a second wind

at some point, but for now I hate to say it,

it's just being stored.

I'm sorry.

[button clicking] [upbeat music]

[button clicking] This is my brother's bathroom.

These blinds here they're currently on a timer

and I think they go up at six or seven a.m.

So when my brother takes a shower, somebody's outside

it goes up. [Zedd laughing]

He's had an encounter with our gardeners

because he decided to take an early shower

and the gardeners had a nice view.

[button clicking]

Yeah, well my brother does not live with me anymore

so he does not have to be concerned about the timer

I put on his shades, but yeah I suppose

that was a little bit unreasonable of me

to have a timer [laughing] go in there.

I think living with my brother was both amazing,

but also incredibly stressful at the same time.

You know how it is when you live with your siblings,

there's always friction and I feel like

once we didn't live together anymore

we actually became way closer, ironically,

and we seeked to be in the same place more.

And our relationship has improved,

so sometimes you just need a little space.

[upbeat music]

[button clicking]

This is my unorganized, unfinished closet.

I apologize for the mess, and then the other side

meant to be hers, but it's shoes.

Lots of shoes that I haven't even opened yet.

I like shoes.

I guess you can tell. [button clicking]

[laughing] Well, I feel like I never finished that closet,

by the way, and I don't think the shoes

ever looked organized.

I feel like I have a better system today.

This is quite embarrassing to be honest with you.

I did not remember ever showing anyone,

there's still boxes everywhere, damn.

Yeah, that was not finished for sure.

I think I really loved shoes

because it the only thing I was collecting.

I didn't have any other collections back then,

to me it was more of a art piece.

I didn't think of them as shoes.

A lot of them I knew I was never going to wear,

but I loved the design.

I definitely will say that over time I have parted ways

with a lot of my shoes and given them away

and tried to consolidate down to a,

I'll just call it a reasonable amount.

But I still like shoes, but I think with age

the comfort has become much more important.

[light music]

[button clicking] This is the rooftop,

I think if I ever really have a proper party,

this would be a really good place to entertain,

I'm imagining some seats,

[laughing] a movie projection

and so it could be a really nice place to watch a movie

when it's warm in the summer, I think. [laughing]

Never tried it. [button clicking]

[laughing] Well, I never had that party.

Whatever party I thought I would ever have,

I didn't have that party.

But we did use the rooftop for a wedding.

My tour manager got married at my house

which is nice because I don't like traveling

if I don't have to so I didn't have to go there,

they came to me.

That rooftop was amazing for a dinner, beautiful,

but otherwise even though I was in a party phase,

I was always scared of too many people at my house

so this was not very frequently used at all.

[upbeat music] [button clicking]

Let's head upstairs to the gym that's not finished yet.

There will be a huge machine here

covering the majority of the room.

I have no clue what I am doing

because my trainer's not here.

[laughing] But he'll be rally proud seeing this.

So Patrick, this is for you. [button clicking]

[laughing] I feel like I know a little bit more

about working out today, I still work with Patrick.

And I think my gym is significantly more organized today

then it was back then, but I like my vision.

My vision was nice, and I will say I do miss that gym.

I've never had been in a gym with 300 degree views

or whatever almost every wall was glass,

that was really pretty.

I do miss it sometimes, I will admit.

[upbeat music]

[button clicking] Right now this is still

sort of a garage, but it will become a music studio

we have to dig five feet down

because you need a certain height

to be able to have a good sounding studio

and then there will be stairs going down

and there will be one room here

and one big room over there.

I promise that's what it will be eventually.

[button clicking] Yeah, I shouldn't have

promised that because that studio never happened.

But it's something I really wanted.

Unfortunately, Covid happened,

so all of those plans did not work out,

but I did end up building my dream studio.

Let me just show you.

[paper tearing] [paper flapping]

[uplifting music]

Welcome to my new studio.

[uplifting music continues]

This is something we built from the ground up

which I'm incredibly proud of.

It sort of fulfills my dream of being able to be creative,

have a space to make music and be able to record immediately

anywhere I get inspired.

When I was a kid making music on a laptop,

I definitely never thought I would be in anyplace

along these lines, not even as a visitor,

honestly this is beyond any of my wildest dreams.

[uplifting music continues]

So that's my music studio and it's actually part

of my brand new house that I would love to show you

in great detail tomorrow on Open Door.

So stay tuned.

[uplifting music continues]